WG Correspondence

Missions:

ISPRS Working group III/2 aims to promote the developement of new methodologies, algorithms and applications related to the processing of point clouds acquired by airborne or satellite lidar system, terrestrial laser scanners as well as from other sensors.

To this purpose, the WG organises workshops to exchange the latest developments on processing point clouds.

Furthermore the WG provides (links to) publicly available datasets and organises international comparative tests on the performance of algorithms for processing point clouds for various applications.

Finally, the WG will continue to work closely with WG V/3 and WG III/4 and will establish links with WG VII/7 and WG I/2.

Terms of Reference:

• Information extraction from point clouds
• Registration of point clouds
• Classification/segmentation of natural and urban areas from point clouds
• Analysis of full-waveform lidar data
• Data management systems
• Feature extraction and 3D modelling
• Quality analysis of lidar data

• The WG supports the ISPRS joint workshop on 3D city modelling & applications
• International Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Call for paper on Advances on LiDAR and applications
  
  DEAD LINE for submission 10 October 2010
  
  
• A new OpenSource software is available for handling and visualizing Lidar data (point cloud and waveforms)
  
• Report of the workshop Laserscanning'09 online
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Technical Commission Officers:

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Frédéric Bretar Institut Géographique National MATIS Laboratory 4 Av Pasteur 94165 Saint Mandé France Tel.:  +33 1 43 98 84 36 Fax: +33 1 43 98 85 81 E-mail: frederic.bretar(at)ieee.org http: http://recherche.ign.fr/labos/matis	George Vosselman ITC - Department of Earth Observation Science Hengelosestraat 99, P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede The Netherlands Tel:  +31 53 487 4344 Fax: +31 53 487 4335 E-mail: vosselman(at)itc.nl http: http://www.itc.nl/personal/vosselman	QingMing Zhan School of Urban Design Wuhan University Dong Hu Nan Lu 8 Wuhan, Hubei [Hupeh], 430072, China Tel.:  +86 27 68772147 Fax: +86 27 68773062 E-mail: qmzhan(at)whu.edu.cn	Adrien Chauve Institut Géographique National/CEMAGREF MATIS Laboratory/UMR TETIS 4 Av Pasteur 94165 Saint Mandé France Tel.:  +33 1 43 98 80 00 Fax: +33 1 43 98 85 81 E-mail: adrien.chauve(at)ign.fr http: http://recherche.ign.fr/labos/matis